Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1887-12-23
4 FLOOD OF BILLS.
The Largest Number Ever In
trOduced i'm the Senate.
Old and New Measures Brought
Up For Action.

The total number Of bills and joint resolu-
ions introduced in the United States Senate
m Monday was 594, larger number than
vas ever before introduced in one day.
Among the bills presented by the Senators
.vere a few new ones Of genuine Importance
and a number of old ones which failed OF
passage last session.
The most interesting of the former was
senator Becks bill regarding the circula-
ion Of coin certificates, which he en-
tiled: "a bill for the retirement of
United States legal tender and national
2ank notes of small denominations, and
the issue Of coin certificates Its pur
pose is fairly described in the title, and II en-
ieavOrs to secure its object by preventing the
.ssue Of United States notes of less than SO,
limiting national bank notes of less than $40 to
me fourth of the entire circulation, subStltu-
ing coin certificates for silver and gold
artificates. which shall be retired when they
are received at the Treasury, and authoriz-
ing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue
-bfs,a coin certificates in denominations less
than $50 on all the surplus gold and silver
DIN and bullion in excess of OO,OJOOOO OF
gold.
senator Bowen touched upon the same
subject by his bill providing a new guaran-
zee for bank circulation, and bis old bill for
The unlimited coinage of silver Both these
branches of the financial subject were well
senator's.
Senator Blair, among a series of labor and
temperance bills, put III his old Educational
OIL again. and Senator Cameron reintro-
lucrd, with some slight changes, his bill per
hitting the international Navigation Com
1anv 10 bring their fleet Of foreign built
.eSsels under the American register This
Dill adds also the permission to replace
any of their feet lost destroyed
With new vessels constructed or purchased i'll
fOreign countries He also introduced his
last sessions bill to promote the foreign trade
II the United States. which prOyideS cOmpen-
satiOn for carrying the mails TO vessels of
specified classes at rates varying from four
ents to four and four-fifth cents per 100 tons
per mile.
Among other bills were the following:
By acknowledgements 81. OO0 900
'or the establishment of postal telegraph
system, with four main trunk lines, centering
ut Washington, and lateral branches 30 con-
1ect with leading cities generally, to be
,perated by the PostOffice Department.
BY Mitchell-To regulate immigration and
prevent the introduction of an objectionable
class Of citizens.
BY Pugh-To refer all claims coming be
tore Congress to Il committee having power
- send them to the Court of Claims
By DOlph-To amend the Constitution,
giving Congress power to make laws to gov
arm marriages and divorces.
BY EuStiS-PrOviding for n Joint celebra-
-iOn at the national capital in $50 by the Is
American Republics i'll honor of the centen-
NAL of the Constitution of the parent Repub-
ic-the United States. The bill appropriates
500, 900 for this purpose and provides COM
mission to have charge of the celebration.
By Turpie-For the admission States of
Washington and Dakota Territories.
BY HOar-FOr the erection Of a monument
70 the negro soldiers and sailors who gave
their lives for the preservation of the cOun-
try.
BY Chandler-Fixing the salaries of the
several Judges of the United States District
curtis Mt 81 900 YEARLY
BY CullOm-FOr "a pension to the widow Of
General John y. Logan; also for a cOnstitu-
-iOnal amendment i'll relation to bigamy and
DOlyganiy; also to reimburse several States
tor interest paid on war bonds.
BY Hale-To prohibit the letting of govern
ment work TO contractors employing convict
labor.
t5v Dawes-A bill TO grant lands in severalty
- Sioux Indians in Dakota.
By Manderson--The Dependent Pension
oil. Endorsed BY the Grand Army of the Re
public Mr.. Henderson said he would adj
lresS the Senate in favor Of the bill.
BY Vance-To repeal the Civil Service law.
By Stewart-FOr the issue OF Coin Certiti-
.AtCS.